Jim Stephens' Blog: Wasting Time With God

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Wasting Time With God

Conscientiously “wasting” time with God enables me to speak and act from greater strength, to forgive rather than nurse the latest bruise to my ego, to be capable of magnanimity during the petty moments of life. Brennan Manning - "Abba's Child"

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"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." Erma Bombeck

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. - Robert Byrne

Life After God

Now - here is my secret: I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again, so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.
Douglas Coupland

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I have to buy something.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. - Anonymous

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. - Douglas Adams

"Let's pretend that you are someone who might be willing, in theory, at some point, possibly, to consider maybe doing something that, while not 'evangelism'-type evangelism, still could be in some way construed as a sort of sharing of hope. Kind of."
From A Shy Person's Guide to the Practice of Evangelism, a booklet for Episcopalians, by Steven C. Bonsey.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. - Woody Allen

People see the world not as it is, but as they are. Al Lee

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell

It is impossible to learn anything important about anyone until we get him or her to disagree with us; it is only in contradiction that character is disclosed. That is why autocractic employers usually remain so ignorant about the true nature of their subordinates. Sydney J. Harris

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Claude M. Bristol

When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted

WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED
RUDYARD KIPLING - 1892

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it - lie down for an eon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.

And those that were good shall be happy: they shall sit in a golden chair;
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets' hair.
They shall find real saints to draw from - Magdalene, Peter, and Paul;
They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all!

And only The Master shall praise us, and only The Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of Things as They are!

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Wasting Time With God

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